Jetson, William

From: An Island Refuge- Loyalists and Disbanded Troops on The Island of Saint John, The Abegweit Branch of UELAC, 1983

  • According to The History of Leeds and Grenville by Thade W. H. Leavitt, published in 1879, the Judsons emigrated from Manchester, England, in 1634 and settled at Concord, Massachusetts. In 1639 William Judson moved to Stafford, Connecticut where it is believed he died. He had three sons and from this family sprang all the Judsons of America.
  • One descendant, WILLIAM, was a sergeant in the British Army at the close of the Revolutionary War. He would not take up arms against England and eventually came to the Island of Saint John where he served as a Private in the Saint John Volunteers. He was thirty years of age at the time. William Jetson appeared in the List of Loyalists and Disbanded Soldiers in April 1786, as having received a grant of land in Lot 65. He was married with a wife and two daughters under ten years. We next find him in Lot 34, Hillsborough River, at the old French Fort. It was there that his only son was born on March 25, 1789. Although official records describe him as being “much improved and settled”, Jetson appears to have moved again, purchasing 150 acres of land at Squaw Bay, now Alexandra from Robert Clark in 1793. St. Paul’s Church of England records give Wm. Jetson’s wife’s name as Ann McMullen when their daughter Jane was born in 1797.